Literary Criticism
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Not Under FortyFor Willa Cather, the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts. The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of...
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Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthyThe values of literary naturalism at play in one of America's most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers,...
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume SetThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear sense of the shape, scale, and variety of the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays,...
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Anonymus Cantabrigiensis: Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos AristotelisThis is an edition of an extensive Latin commentary on Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations composed about 1205 by an anonymous Parisian master who was a philosophically perceptive close reader of the Aristotelian text. The only extant manuscript of his work is now in Cambridge. This...
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Queering the South on ScreenWithin the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of...
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Devoción / DevotionPatti Smith vuelve a las librer as con un libro en el que ofrece una perspectiva inusualmente po tica y m stica del misterio de la creaci n literaria. Estamos en la habitaci n de un hotel de Par s; Patti Smith acaba de...
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Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial MomentThis book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico. Framed within the context of the present economic crisis, of austerity measures, PROMESA and mass migration, this book engages recent literary, artistic and activist work...
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Claudien, Oeuvres. Tome I: Le Rapt de ProserpineGrec d'Alexandrie venu a Rome, Claudien est a juste titre considere comme le dernier grand poete paien de la Rome antique: de 395 a 404, il a chante la Rome theodosienne: }qu'il croyait eternelle. Les poemes politiques et de circonstance, temoignages capitaux pour l'histoire...
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and ArtIn this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the...
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Happy Landings: Emilie Loring's Life, Writing, and WisdomRom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring's romance novels. With a career spanning 40 years, Emilie Baker Loring saw millions of her books sold...
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Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of DiscompositionBlotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative process--the idea that William Shakespeare "never blotted out line"--to argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor...
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White Male Disability in Modernist Literature: Reading Lawrence, Hemingway, and FaulknerThis study explores the representation of disability in three of the most well-known novels of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929). By signifying cultural demise...
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the InternetThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call...
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The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story"The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books" (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews--featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her...
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On Amist�: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's ItalyOn Amist� comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.Author: Elizabeth CoggeshallPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 03/17/2023Pages: 232Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.94dISBN: 9781487548179This title is only available via back order
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Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca: In the Petrie CollectionImportant study of the range of ostraca, in terms of both materials and subject matter held in the major collection of the Petrie Museum.Facsimile reissue of Anthea Page's 1983 catalog of 82 ostraca held in the Petrie Collection, London. Ostraca are flakes of limestone...
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The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love StoryThe Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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The Lights and Shadows of Real LifeThe Lights and Shadows of Real Life, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been...
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The Lightning Conductor Discovers AmericaThe Lightning Conductor Discovers America, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped,...
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The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas WrightThe Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner...
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